
Floating Weeds (1959)
Ukigusa (original title)Reference View | Change View
- Not Rated
- 1h 59min
- Drama
- 24 Nov 1970 (USA)
- Movie
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Directed by
Yasujirô Ozu |
Written by
Yasujirô Ozu | ... | (screenplay) & |
Kôgo Noda | ... | (screenplay) |
Tadao Ikeda | ... | (original screenplay) (uncredited) |
Produced by
Masaichi Nagata | ... | producer |
Music by
Takanobu Saitô |
Cinematography by
Kazuo Miyagawa |
Editing by
Tôyô Suzuki | ... | (as Toyo Suzuki) |
Editorial Department
Shôzô Tanaka | ... | color consultant |
Production Design by
Hideo Matsuyama |
Art Direction by
Tomoo Shimogawara |
Makeup Department
Takashi Makino | ... | makeup artist |
Production Management
Takao Matsumoto | ... | executive in charge of production |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Bainari Nakamura | ... | assistant director |
Art Department
Tokujirô Harashima | ... | property master |
Iwao Iwami | ... | set designer |
Sound Department
Takeo Suda | ... | sound |
Camera and Electrical Department
Yukio Itô | ... | gaffer |
Additional Crew
Sueyuki Hanayagi | ... | choreographer |
Kichijirô Ueda | ... | stage director |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Daiei (1959) (Japan) (theatrical)
- Altura Films International (1970) (United States) (theatrical) (subtitled)
- Artificial Eye (2003) (United Kingdom) (theatrical) (re-release)
- Carlotta Films (2019) (France) (theatrical) (re-release) (restored version)
- Penteo Films S.L. (2024) (Spain) (theatrical) (subtitled version)
- A Contracorriente Films (2024) (Spain) (Blu-ray)
- DeAPlaneta Entertainment (2004) (Spain) (DVD)
- Kadokawa Entertainment (2009) (Japan) (DVD)
- NHK Sôgô (1989) (Japan) (tv)
- NHK-BS2 (1990) (Japan) (tv)
- Pony Canyon (2003) (Japan) (DVD)
- The Criterion Channel (2019) (United States) (tv) (digital)
- The Criterion Collection (2004) (United States) (DVD)
- The Criterion Collection (2010) (United States) (DVD)
- The Criterion Collection (United States) (laserdisc)
- Versátil (2014) (Brazil) (DVD)
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Plot Summary |
Komajuro Arashi, referred to as Master by his colleagues, is the lead actor in a second-rate travelling acting troupe in Japan; they perform grand kabuki. The troupe's next stop is a coastal town they haven't performed at in twelve years, the last time before Komajuro's girlfriend Sumiko joined the troupe. As is usual, some of the men try to have fun by pursuing some of the local women, sometimes with success, sometimes not. Komajuro has his own agenda in coming to this town, something only a few of the older troupe members know about, in that he fathered a son here close to twenty years ago. His son, Kiyoshi, has been told that his biological father died when he was a child and Komajuro is the brother of his mother Oyoshi. Komajuro has been sending money to Oyoshi all these years which is allowing Kiyoshi to soon go off to college, a better life than Komajuro as an itinerant actor leads. Komajuro wants to spend as much time as possible with Kiyoshi and Oyoshi before the troupe has to leave again. When Sumiko discovers what's going on, Kiyoshi becomes a pawn in the battle between Sumiko and Komajuro. Written by Huggo |
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Did You Know?
Trivia | Stated by cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa about director Yasujirô Ozu: "I'll never forget that, from the first day on, he knew the names of everybody on the set, fifty people in the crew, people he'd never worked with. He'd written their names down, I learned later. But everyone was impressed and became devoted to him. Every single day working on this film was extremely pleasurable and enriching. In each of Ozu's films you can sniff his personality. He was pure, gentle, light-hearted, a fine individual." See more » |
Goofs | Near the end, sandals disappear or move around: after Kiyoshi argues with his father, he runs upstairs, first slipping out of his sandals and leaving them at the bottom (center) of the stairs. Moments later, Kayo goes up to him. We see that she, too, removes her sandals at the bottom of the stairs. But Kiyoshi's sandals have now suddenly disappeared: we see only Kayo's sandals at the bottom of the stairs. Moments later, Kiyoshi comes back downstairs to go after his father. He goes to put on his sandals, which have now suddenly reappeared, but in a different location from where he took them off. A moment later, Kayo also comes down the stairs and puts on her sandals, which are approximately where she had removed them and placed them, moments earlier. See more » |
Movie Connections | Featured in Siskel & Ebert Holiday Gift Guide (1989). See more » |
Soundtracks | Wasurecha iyayo (aka: Don't forget me) See more » |
Quotes |
Komajuro Arashi:
You can't help an empty house, when it's empty. See more » |